Very strange movie-

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2003)

Post-Apocalyptic thrillers are as common as rain (the heyday for them, of course, was in the 1980s,) but this is something different. Filmed digitally, the bluish-green tint of the shots, strange lighting and slash-cut editing made me think of "The Ring" morphing into an MTV music video.
These photographic results are excellent, and they are enhanced by the locations- a hauntingly deserted London and a burning Manchester are juxtaposed with shots of beautiful British countryside; the melancholic location of the ruins served as a perfect metaphor for a destroyed civilization where people are, nevertheless, trying to get on with life.
And then there is the military outpost where, for sheer inhumanity, the normal soldiers easily out-do the zombies. What could be more monstrous than chaining-up an infected comrade-in-arms in order to watch him die of starvation? Like the mad scientists running the secret lab at the beginning of the film, common decency is trashed in the service of research.